I just found out that in recent first person shooters, weapon fires no
longer light up the surrounding environments.
Go back to older games like Unreal, Quake 2 or Half life. Fire a
weapon, throw a grenade, shoot a rocket down a hall way. You will find

I just turned 40, and I guess I'm a part of the original "Pac-man
generation". I was initially put off by modern games, but I've recently
decided to take a look at some of the games of today available on the
PC platform.

Anyone got any advice on a good gaming mouse?  I bought a Microsoft
Intellimouse Optical Explorer, and while it's really nice for surfing, the
fact that the mouse wheel is "smooth" instead of "clicking" makes it tough
to change weapons precisely.  I'm considering the Logitech ...

Where's the keycard to the 'secret room' near the start?  Is it anywhere
on the main floor of the first level?  I've just about searched
everywhere without result.  All that's left are the large, green
containers but most are filled with radioactive-waste containers or

http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9399
This is from a post by Krypt who was one of the designers at Ion Storm
working on Thief:DS ...
"The big one was getting a map to fit into the 64mb of memory on xbox. That

Just finished GTA:VC again. And despite myself, and despite its many faults,
it's an addictive and playable little bugger. So the news that SA is 3 times
the size and does away with the 'get busted, spend 10 minutes driving back
to start the mission' problem makes me sit up and ...

Are they STEAM cleaned or just laundered?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8173270292&rd=1

Thoughts ?
Comments ?
Suggestions ?
Opinions ?

Alright, this is somewhat OT, but it relates to playing games, which is the
main reason I bought this setup.
I just purchased  teh Creative Inspire GD580 speakers that comes with a
digitial decoder. I have a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and want to use

I have dual Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra cards in SLI configuration and a
Qualia 06 for display, hooked up with a DVI to HDMI cable. I can get
Windows to display fine, but whenever I start a game (I have tried Half
Life 2, Doom 3 so far) I get large vertical bands running across the

3dgamers.com have a SP demo for Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, weighing
in at a slightly portly 585MB.

http://img186.exs.cx/img186/2789/blackbelt3qb.jpg
an alleged picture of the Sega BlackBelt or 'Black Belt' prototype console
which was *not* selected
to become Sega's final console.

After buying it months ago I'm finally playing this game...
I'm following Sadono and my mission is to track him and with the
"sticky camera" record him telling his minions the latest keycode
number.